Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947^[1]) is an American historian and academic administrator, currently dean of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and president-elect of Harvard University. She will take office on July 1, 2007, succeeding Interim President Derek Bok, becoming the first female president in the university's history.^[2] She will also be Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard.^[3][4] September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... An historian is someone who writes history, a written accounting of the past. ... The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard is an educational institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the semiautonomous components of Harvard University. ... The President is the chief administrator of Harvard University. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator. ...

Early life and career

Faust was born and raised in Clarke County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley.^[1] She is the daughter of Catharine and McGhee Tyson Gilpin. Faust comes from a well-connected family of business and political leaders.^[5] Her great-grandfather, Lawrence Tyson, was a U. S. Senator from Tennessee during the 1920s. Clarke County is the name of several counties in the United States: Clarke County, Alabama Clarke County, Georgia Clarke County, Iowa Clarke County, Mississippi Clarke County, Virginia See also Clark County. ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,793 sq mi (110,862 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 7. ... Canoeing on the Shenandoah River near Winchester, VA. The Shenandoah Valley region of western Virginia, from Winchester to Staunton, is bounded by the Blue Ridge mountains to the East and the Allegheny mountains to the West. ... Lawrence Tyson was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1925-1929) This article is a stub. ...

Graduating from Concord Academy, Concord, Massachusetts in 1964, Faust earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, A.M. and Ph.D. in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. In the same year, she joined the Penn faculty as assistant professor of American civilization, rising to Walter Annenberg Professor of History. In 2001, she was appointed the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the successor to Radcliffe College.^[1] A specialist in the history of the South in the antebellum period and Civil War, Faust is author of five books, most notably Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, for which she won the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize in 1997. Concord Academy Concord Academy is an independent college preparatory school for grades 9 through 12 located in Concord, Massachusetts. ... Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Middlesex County Settled 1635 Incorporated 1635 Government  - Type Open town meeting Area  - Town  25. ... “Bryn Mawr” redirects here. ... The 12-hour clock is a timekeeping convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called ante meridiem (AM, Latin for before noon) and post meridiem (PM, Latin for after noon). Each period consists of 12 hours numbered 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... Walter H. Annenberg Walter H. Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was a billionaire publisher and philanthropist. ... Radcliffe College was a liberal arts womens college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, closely associated with Harvard University. ... Antebellum is a Latin word meaning before war(ante means before and bellum is war). ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...

Faust is a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the National Humanities Center, and she serves on the educational advisory board of the Guggenheim Foundation. She is divorced from her first husband, Stephen Faust and is currently married to Charles E. Rosenberg, a historian of medicine also at Harvard. “Bryn Mawr” redirects here. ... The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a foundation endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon. ... The National Humanities Center is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. ... The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation funds the Guggenheim Museums. ... Charles E. Rosenberg (born November 11, 1936) is an American Professor of the History of Science and the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences at Harvard University. ...

Late Thursday February 8, 2007, The Harvard Crimson broke the news that Faust had been selected as Harvard's president. Following formal approval by the university's governing boards, her appointment was announced three days later. She will follow Lawrence H. Summers, who resigned on June 30, 2006, after a whirlwind of controversies (stemming partially from comments he made on a possible correlation between specific genders and success in certain academic fields), and former president Derek Bok who returned for a year as interim president. Faust commented at a news conference on campus, "I hope that my own appointment can be one symbol of an opening of opportunities that would have been inconceivable even a generation ago". But she also added, "I'm not the woman president of Harvard, I'm the president of Harvard."^[3] The Harvard Crimson, the breakfast daily of Harvard University, was founded in 1873. ... Lawrence Henry (Larry) Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and academic. ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Lawrence Henry (Larry) Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and academic. ... Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator. ...

Honors

• Faust was named a member of the Time 100 for 2007.
• Faust was awarded a honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from Bowdoin College in May 2007.

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Selected works

• Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0807855737
• Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War (University of Missouri Press, 1992) ISBN 978-0826209757
• The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (Louisiana State University Press, 1982) ISBN 978-0807116067
• James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (Louisiana State University Press, 1982) ISBN 978-0807112489
• A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977) ISBN 978-0812212297

References

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External links

Biographies and background:

• Biography - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
• Drew Gilpin Faust ’68 to Lead Harvard - Bryn Mawr College
• Drew Gilpin Faust's Quick Ascent Offers a Snapshot of a New Harvard - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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• First Female Harvard President Discusses Priorities and Goals - The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
• Harvard's Faust: Boundaries Remain for Women - NPR
• A Conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust - National Endowment for the Humanities (1997)

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• A lesson from the new president of Harvard editorial by Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
• Harvard’s Faustian Bargain - City Journal